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by Elv13 9y ago
The problem is often that those outpost were only for mercantile purposes and left not much behind. There has been some European metal artifacts found deep into NA and indicate prior contact / pillaging of those outposts. We have Vikin
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by Elv13 9y ago
chaos theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJAs9Qr359o
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by Elv13 9y ago
I don't think so. When LO forked, Oracle disbanded the whole OOo team (AFAIK). When they did, IBM was furious and that ended up causing the move to Apache. In return, IBM merged their commercial fork into Apache OO to save the project.
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by Elv13 9y ago
Apache OpenOffice devs consider themselves to be at war with LO (but that's fantasy, the project is dead, only its bureaucracy survives). One is copyleft and the other copyright. One is owned by Apache while the other is the result of
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by Elv13 9y ago
Interestingly enough, the Qt framework (very common in cars) uses a rather clever trick to avoid that. The QtWayland module allows to create your cluster on the compositor level instead of application level. That way, each widget can be its
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by Elv13 9y ago
As a related story, meet Mike, the headless chicken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
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by Elv13 9y ago
In the middle chivalry (loose rules of wars, feud and honor) required to spare the enemies that surrendered, but you could take them prisoners for ransoms. It was a totally normal means of financing warfare and profiting from conflicts. Kni
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by Elv13 9y ago
If you spend more than 6 month outside of your home base country, it gets complicated. I did that once and wont do it again. This year I only spent ~2 months on the road so there is no problems. From now on, that probably will be the way to
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by Elv13 9y ago
Former full Digital Nomad and current sporadic Digital Nomad here (37 countries so far). First time I "went rogue" and left everything behind was more a rejection and "overdose" of normality. Repeating the same day over
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by Elv13 9y ago
If the generator is itself in C++, then it requires to have 2 full toolchains to bootstrap it. Then if the developer have a great idea such as "hey, I got access to all my code! Let's reuse it" then you have to build the pack
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by Elv13 9y ago
And have all embedded engineers raging because you just made cross compilation an order of magnitude harder.
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by Elv13 9y ago
I think we have to be careful given the article only looks at one side. While in this case it took an absurd turn and is a clear case of "lock this dude behind bars: we don't like him", it is not always that simple. I would g
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by Elv13 9y ago
Still, ANSI C89 is still being "developed" in the sense modern optimizing compilers still improve the state of the art and their STD (glibc/musl) still supports them as primary targets for development (rather than the newer C
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by Elv13 9y ago
ANSI C (C89), Fortran 66 and COBOL 61 will easily be the most serious contenders.
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by Elv13 9y ago
> And how would you refine aluminium for thermite under water or refine highly reactive alkaline metals? Refining aluminium is either done with the chemical baths process or electrolysis. Electrolysis works equally well in dielectric gas
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by Elv13 9y ago
Thermite or alkaline metals will burn just fine under water. As long as you have an oxidizer, some combustible and a source of energy to kickstart the reaction, it will burn. Also, I don't see why fire is so important. It was important
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by Elv13 9y ago
No, that's the EM drive. This engine is less or more a particle accelerator shooting high velocity noble gas. It's like a rocket (less or more), but instead of using a lot of slow matter, it use a little, but very fast, matter. It
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by Elv13 9y ago
No. The way I plan to fix it is having "dht services" where you can delegate the mobile device burden to another node. As we use SIP and it supports such topology, it's not much of a problem.
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by Elv13 9y ago
(KDE dev here) It is still an issue, but it's getting better. As far as I am concerned, Ring-KDE (a phone and Skype alternative app) is still eating too much power. It is a work in progress and is already much better than it was a coup
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by Elv13 9y ago
The same map in 1901 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/1901_Eas... Actually, not much changed. There's probably less active cables now.
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by Elv13 9y ago
Not true. Think of to the Bedouins in the Sahara, the Inuits in northern Canada and the tradesmen crossing the Silk Road since the first Egyptian empire. Or anyone in India for the last 7k years. Humans have been living with temperatures ra
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by Elv13 9y ago
> This will have the effect to dissuade the small hosts due to government harassment, while the larger hosts will pay the income tax and still make bank. There is a provision where everything under 30kCAD/y isn't fully taxable.
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by Elv13 9y ago
You are reading the data wrong. The 4tb have 5k hours for 400 drives while the others have order of magnitude more spin time. The other type of 4tb have a sample size too small to conclude anything (a single bad batch is possible). Given th
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by Elv13 9y ago
Well, it's not really an idea. It is what HeapTrack and MTuner do. You install them, inspect the result, fix the worst offenders, repeat. There isn't much to it.
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by Elv13 9y ago
Most of it (memcheck and massif), but good luck getting the important data out. Memcheck is fine, but massif is quite restricted as a object-level memory monitor. I can't talk for MTuner, but HeapTrack is very, very useful to track and
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by Elv13 9y ago
In case someone is looking for the equivalent on Linux and Mac, there is HeapTrack https://github.com/KDE/heaptrack edit: typo
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by Elv13 9y ago
Oracle sells Oracle Linux, a RedHat clone. ZFS on Linux (ZoL) isn't controlled by Oracle, it is a fork of OpenSolaris version of ZFS. The ZFS sold by Oracle on Solaris isn't the same product and doesn't support Linux. Oracle
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by Elv13 9y ago
> 3. In Qt, if I overlap 52 QML rectangles like a deck of cards, does the renderer only paint the parts of the rectangles that will be visible in the viewport? I was under the impression that this was the case, but I may be misunderstand
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by Elv13 9y ago
Each new iterations of C++ introduces more "constexpr" elements. It's a C++ sub language to execute things "possibly at compile time". The language as a whole is too complex (ex: threads, futures, i/o) to fully
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by Elv13 9y ago
`memcheck86` is included in most Linux LiveCDs (ok, let's start to call them live USB sticks?). It will stress-test the system DDR/SDRAM. If you need to check external memory (GPU, IoT, etc) then there is some tools online. Note t

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